Well, I think the forum structure is getting crowded down too much ... cant say I like the Ads on the right side ... I would love to be able to break the forum out of it's frame into it's own window but I don't know how to do that.

Site looks cool. I've found that I also tune out the adverts - I noticed them at the beginning, and now had forgotten them till right now.

The 'new posts' functionality doesn't seem to be working properly. I used to just check which posts had an orange icon by the side of it, and the first time that I enter the site, it shows the orange icons, but as soon as I enter any of the forums, everything gets marked as read. Is this a problem with my cookies or something?

Thanks for providing this site Sigurd - we all really appreciate the opportunity to discuss here.

It's not the topic of this section of the board and it's not the topic of this thread but it would be interesting which teams Google is sponsoring or round about what amount of money it has given to the Foundation. I'm not asking for the amount of dollars but of the purpose - is it a donation for the cash prizes of the CUPs beginning in 2006?

It's not the topic of this section of the board and it's not the topic of this thread but it would be interesting which teams Google is sponsoring or round about what amount of money it has given to the Foundation. I'm not asking for the amount of dollars but of the purpose - is it a donation for the cash prizes of the CUPs beginning in 2006?

I don't think Google are directly sponsoring the X-Prize or any specific teams. I think actually what Sigurd said is that by running the Google ads mean that he can finance this messageboard. I think that if you have a significant number of visitors, then you can be paid by Google to have the ads on your site. Therefore the more that we click on the ads, the more money that comes in to pay for the site and give the rest to the X-Prize Foundation. Is that what you meant Sigurd?

1) Google is "not" directly sponsering the X PRIZE.
Google Ads provide is with money, if people click on the advertisement.
It's about +- 1 to 4$ a day on this moment (before the forum) and with this forum it may go a little up.

The webspace doesn't cost that much, so the extra money will be used for sponsoring the X PRIZE, or a team etc.. we'll make all details public, and even with a forum vote when we collected anough money to do so.

>>Text was a little small, but I just bumped it up a notch in Firefox.
In MS IE, it's looking ok for me, but with Mozilla it isn't, so I'm able to see the problem, I'll try to fix it.

>>Well, I think the forum structure is getting crowded down too much
I'll soon provide a second forum style choise, back to normal, without advertisement.

>>The 'new posts' functionality doesn't seem to be working properly
I just tested it (in IE) and it worked perfectly, I'll test it in Mozilla soon.
I'll also try to fix this problem.

i think white or grey text on black is alot nicer on the eyes than white: it's not like staring into a lightbulb. and i also think the google ads are good for the site in general, i didn't even notice them until i saw it mentioned in the posts, lol. ps sigurd, can we artificially inflate our hit count with google ads by going to them, going back, and then going to a different one, or would that be an exercise in futility/illegality/wasting time?